cantharicadj.
/kanˈθarɪk/ cantharic acid n. a substance of the same composition as cantharidin ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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canˈtharidal adj. Medicine pertaining to, made with, or caused by cantharides.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [adjective] > cantharidic (beetle)
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1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. ii. iv. 534 Cantharidal collodion can be applied to the skin.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 563 A constant symptom in cantharidal poisoning.
canˈtharidate v. to impregnate or treat with cantharides.
canˈtharidate n. a salt of cantharidic acid.
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1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) Cantharidate of potash.
canthariˈdean adj. = cantharidian adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [adjective] > cantharidic (beetle)
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1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 29 He writes..like a pedagogue infected by some cantharidean philter.
canthaˈridian adj. of the nature of, or composed of, cantharides.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > aphrodisiac > specific
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1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xiii, in Poems 47 O how they fire the heart devout, Like cantharidian plaisters.
canthaˈridic adj. of the nature of cantharides, as in cantharidic acid, a development of cantharidin by the absorption of one equivalent of water.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [adjective] > cantharidic (beetle)
cantharidic1833
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1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 138/1 His love-philtres, his cantharidic Wine of Egypt.
1877 H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. II. 608 Heated with alkalis it [cantharidin] dissolves, forming salts of cantharidic acid.
canˈtharidin n. the vesicating principle of cantharides; also called canthariˈdinic acid.
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1819 J. G. Children Ess. Chem. Anal. 309 Cantharadin has the form of small crystalline plates with a shining micaceous appearance.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 131 Cantharidin..taken internally, is a virulent poison.
canˈtharidism n. the poisonous action of cantharides.
canˈtharidize v. to affect or treat with cantharides (esp. as an aphrodisiac); also figurative.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > make piquantly exciting
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cantharidize1812
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)] > make more piquant or poignant
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1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxxv. 223 He may..very probably have cantharidized it [the language of a book] to the taste of the French court.
1832 Mitford Parnell's Poems (Aldine ed.) Life 37 (note) He has cantharadised the story.
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